The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.

It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.

Penelope Fitzgerald

What man's mind can create, man's character can control.

Thomas Alva Edison

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

Joseph Addison

An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.

Phaedrus

Everyone who is successful must have dreamed of something.

American Indian Proverb, Maricop

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

Robert Anthony

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

John Adams

England's genius filled all measure Of heart and soul, of strength and pleasure, Gave to the mind its emperor, And life was larger than before: Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air was fame.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.

Edward F. Halifax

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Abraham Lincoln

I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.

Linda McCartney